For example, Laurel, Maryland has been called one of the biggest party towns in the nation. And you can see why. It has a large number of college kids, a very young population, and frankly, there’s a huge bar scene.

But is it the best city to score in? The purpose of this post is to use science and data to determine which places are the easiest you could possibly go in Maryland if you wanted to hook up with someone.

After analyzing 111 of the state’s most populous areas (over 10,000 people), we came up with this list as the 10 easiest places to get laid in the state of Maryland:

Well if you live in Baltimore, you’re probably already aware of the pure excitement level, based on the criteria we list below. And if you’re not already regularly hooking up there…well, then there’s nothing we can do about that.

That’s your own personal problem.

Read on below to see how we crunched the numbers and see how the places near you fared. We’ve got the complete list of the most populous cities below so you know where to go and where to avoid on your next road trip.

How do you decide if a place in the Old Line State is easy to get lucky in?

In order to rank the chances where you’re most likely to get laid in Maryland, we had to determine what criteria helps people hook up. It isn’t a stretch to assume that people will get frisky where there are plenty of young singles, areas where people aren’t married and with kids, and in areas with high lots of adult things to do.

So we found databases across the internet for those criteria, and it spit out the answer. Like magic.

Get Laid Score: 85.9Population: 621,000% Female Population: 53.0%Bars: 65Colleges: 16
Baltimore (/bltmr/, locally: [b.m]) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

Get Laid Score: 79.1Population: 25,703% Female Population: 52.3%Bars: 2Colleges: 2
Laurel is a city in northern Prince George’s County, Maryland, in the United States, located almost midway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore on the banks of the Patuxent River. Founded as a mill town in the early 19th century, the arrival of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1835 expanded local industry and later enabled the city to become an early commuter town for Washington and Baltimore workers. Largely residential today, the city maintains a historic district centered on its Main Street, highlighting its industrial past.

Get Laid Score: 78.8Population: 10,689% Female Population: 53.7%Bars: 1Colleges: 1
Largo is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George’s County, Maryland, in the United States. The population was 10,709 at the 2010 census.

Get Laid Score: 72.7Population: 58,189% Female Population: 53.9%Bars: 62Colleges: 1
Towson (/tasn/) is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland. The population was 55,197 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Baltimore County and the second-most populated unincorporated county seat in the United States (after Ellicott City, Maryland, the seat in nearby Howard County, southwest of Baltimore).

Get Laid Score: 68.2Population: 31,942% Female Population: 46.4%Bars: 26Colleges: 1
The City of College Park is in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The population was 30,413 at the 2010 United States Census. It is best known as the home of the University of Maryland, College Park, and since 1994 the city has also been home to the ‘Archives II’ facility of the U.S. National Archives, as well as to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP).

Get Laid Score: 67.0Population: 17,567% Female Population: 52.8%Bars: 4Colleges: 1
Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a suburb of Washington, D.C., and part of the Washington metropolitan area. Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1890, Takoma Park, informally called ‘Azalea City’, is a Tree City USA and a nuclear-free zone. A planned commuter suburb, it is situated along the Metropolitan Branch of the historic Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, just northeast of Washington, D.C., and it borders the neighborhood of Takoma, Washington, D.C. It is governed by an elected mayor and six elected councilmembers, who form the city council, and an appointed city manager, under a council-manager style of government. The city’s population was 16,715 at the 2010 national census.

Get Laid Score: 66.8Population: 32,338% Female Population: 52.3%Bars: 3Colleges: 2
Salisbury /slzbri/ is a city in and the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland, United States, and the largest city in the state’s Eastern Shore region. The population was 30,343 at the 2010 census. Salisbury is the principal city of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is the commercial hub of the Delmarva Peninsula, which was long devoted to agriculture and had a southern culture. It calls itself ‘The Comfortable Side of Coastal’.

Get Laid Score: 64.6Population: 20,290% Female Population: 51.9%Bars: 4Colleges: 1
Cumberland Maryland, officially the City of Cumberland, is a western gateway city and seat of Allegany County, Maryland, United States and the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 20,859, and the metropolitan area had a population of 103,299. Cumberland is a regional business and commercial center for Western and the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. Cumberland is commonly referred to as ‘Where The South Begins,’ as official United States Census Bureau records place it below the Mason?Dixon line.